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acchow 

  All the king's horses
  And all the king's men
  Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty
  Together again
mv4
Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass

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[dead] cornknob
JSTOR helped kill Aaron Swartz
jacquesm
Get your facts right, JSTOR asked the prosecutor to drop the charges.
YetAnotherNick
Thanks for educating me. I seriously wouldn't have thought that.
sushid
If you want to bring this up, you should be blaming MIT rather than JSTOR.

"Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. He said JSTOR signed off on it, but MIT would not." [0]

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-defici...

jacquesm
That did not stop MIT from doing their whitewash and denying any responsibility.
hyperpallium
Chomsky left MIT for U of Arizona, it's speculated, for the warmer weather. But might not this be part of the reason?
gowld
What "signing off" could MIT do? They weren't the victims of any crime, they were merely the venue. "MIT didn't sign off" was just Ortiz's excuse to not stop pursuing Swartz.
vondur
The poor guy was mentally ill. I believe he went on a murderous rampage and nearly killed his brother and did kill some of the royal attendants. He also led a huge invasion of Italy which ended up in defeat for the French.
alricb
It was Charles VIII the Affable (reigned 1483-1498), the great-grandson of Charles VI the Mad (reigned 1380-1422), who invaded Italy.
thunderrabbit
I wonder what beliefs we have about human anatomy that will seem quaint/ignorant in some hundred years.
d9h549f34w6
I can think of several, but stating them publicly would lead to social shaming and loss of employment in the current dominant ideology of the tech world.
Razengan
Involuntary circumcision of nonconsenting children, for one.

It should fall under “I can’t believe people were this barbaric” along with virgin sacrifices and other practices that seem inconceivable now, but were sanctioned by pseudoscience and public approval just as this is.

skrebbel
> Involuntary circucumsion of nonconsenting children, for one.

Where do you live that that is considered common? Sounds utterly barbaric to me.

kgwgk
The US, maybe? It remains very common (over 50%). Or some country in Africa / Middle East / Southeast Asia where it’s done for religious reasons. If you go back a few decades it was also quite common in other places like Australia and Canada.
gowld
Killing someone is in the same inconcievable category as a procedure that on average helps as much as it harms, by any statistical measure? By that measure, feeding your child meat also fits, as does refusing to feed your child meat.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/abo...

icebraining
I wouldn't necessarily call it barbaric, but "helps as much as it harms" is downright disingenuous, considering that:

"The risks of not being circumcised, however, are not only rare, but avoidable with proper care of the penis."